This book was written between 1946 and 1952, and first published in 1953. It is now widely regarded as the standard portrait of the European and American theater in the turbulent and seminal years following World War II; but it is far more than that. It ranges back as far as Ibsen and even Shakespeare, and has contributed very substantially to a number of reputations that would long outlast 1950, such as those of Bertolt Brecht, Charles Chaplin and Martha Graham. For Bentley fans, it is an essential link in a chain that runs from The Playwright as Thinker to The Life of the Drama to The Brecht Memoir and Thinking About the Playwright.
- ISBN10 1557831114
- ISBN13 9781557831118
- Publish Date 1 April 2000
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Hal Leonard Corporation
- Imprint Applause Theatre Book Publishers
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 432
- Language English